Senior Digital System Designer
Core
Designing digital-logic systems and low-latency algorithms for a silicon-photonics quantum computer.
Role type
Senior digital-hardware system designer (quantum computing)
Builds
Digital-logic systems and control algorithms for photonic quantum processors
Domain
Quantum computing / Silicon photonics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Digital system design, SystemVerilog/VHDL, FPGA development, Python programming, cycle-accurate modeling, distributed systems, High Level Synthesis
Preferred skills
Photonics and linear optics knowledge, verification with Cocotb, Xilinx Vitis
Technologies
SystemVerilog, VHDL, Python, Xilinx FPGAs, Cocotb, Vitis
Responsibilities
Translate high-level requirements into concrete hardware specs; devise low-latency algorithms for the data-plane; integrate algorithms into FPGAs; arbitrate design choices with physicists; write requirements and documentation; implement cycle-accurate Python models; write SystemVerilog implementations; create behavioral tests in Python.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC